“NC trial looks at partisan bias after US justices won’t”
A
report from the opening days of the state court’s partisan gerrymandering trial
in North Carolina.
Category Archives: chicanery
Protecting the 2020 Election from Manipulation by the President
Protect Democracy has a new white
paper with suggestions for what to do when the call is coming from inside
the house.
“How Trump can mitigate the damage of folding on the census”
Hugh Hewitt’s op-ed suggests that the president should have refused to quit on the census case, and calls for a motion for reconsideration in the Supreme Court.
For perspective, it also claims that “the Supreme Court sat
on the decision… Continue reading
“W.Va. Secretary of State: Russians Meddled in Social Media, Not Voting Machines”
Mac
Warner’s point is absolutely right: in 2016, the most meaningful system hacked
was us. Humans were the most vulnerable
link.
And as for securing the non-human component, election
officials know that there’s been an enormous amount of work done.
Citizenship and the Census: it’s all about Obama
Fact check on the notion that Obama took a citizenship question off of the census.
Spoiler: nope.
Hofeller’s files in North Carolina
The files from Tom
Hofeller that Rick keeps
mentioning in the context of the census case were given to advocates in North
Carolina primarily for use in a redistricting case in state court (i.e.,
not affected by the SCOTUS ruling… Continue reading
“Prosecutors unlikely to charge Trump Org executives, sources say”
Reports from CNN and The Hill on potential campaign-finance charges against executives in the Trump Organization.
FWIW, I fully believe that the sources are being accurately quoted, but I’m always pretty skeptical about underlying representations of whether prosecutions are or… Continue reading
New Yorker on the Hofeller Files and More: “A Father, A Daughter, and the Attempt to Change the Census”
Trump’s Executive Order on the Census
Hi. Please don’t consider this a preview for the coming week: most of the posts will be a lot shorter. I promise.
Until yesterday, the official government reason for getting citizenship information in connection with the decennial census was the… Continue reading
“F.E.C. Allows Security Company to Help 2020 Candidates Defend Campaigns”
NYT:
The Federal Election Commission said on Thursday that a Silicon Valley security company could immediately start helping 2020 presidential candidates defend their campaigns from the kinds of malicious email attacks that Russian hackers exploited in the 2016 election.The… Continue reading
“Trump officials warn of ‘active threats’ to US elections”
AP:
The Trump administration warned of unspecified “active threats” to U.S. elections as top security officials briefed Congress Wednesday on steps the government has taken to improve election security in the wake of Russian interference in 2016.Director of National… Continue reading
“Dems clash with Republicans over election security”
Politico:
House Democrats and Senate Republicans may have attended similar classified briefings on election security Wednesday, but they left with opposite conclusions.House Democrats expressed deep concerns about the White House’s ability to protect voting systems in 2020, drawing fresh… Continue reading
“The Shocking Final Count in the Queens District Attorney Race: What Happened”
NYT:
Almost immediately after the news broke of Ms. Katz’s breakthrough, people began speculating about more nefarious explanations.In particular, Ms. Cabán’s supporters have accused the Queens County Democratic Party, whose leaders supported Ms. Katz, of engineering the disqualification of… Continue reading
“The U.S. isn’t prepared to fend off foreign meddling in 2020. We need a national strategy”
Casey Corcoran, Bo Julie Crowley and Raina Davis LAT oped.